经典英文短诗精选：The Poet

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经典英文短诗精选：The Poet　　What instinct forces man to journey on,
　　Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
8 R. i& q  Z  N8 O2 O　　Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt
: Y5 m" D) z* X, N, o/ ~3 i0 T; J1 v　　His never failing eagerness. The sun
　　Setting in splendour every night has won
　　His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
　　Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
2 t, ^7 ?7 l# \　　His daylight wanderings. Forever done
　　With simple joys and quiet happiness
　　He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
　　Though faint with weariness he must possess
　　Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
' g+ }1 D( N5 H3 v: F) q　　He spurns life's human friendships to profess
( H* A3 ~' X' |　　Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.
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